Linden Lab's Frank Ambrose (FJ Linden) has issued another update on ongoing efforts to improve on the issues that have been a thorn in the side of Second Life users for some time. Ambrose points to the last four weeks as "a good stretch of grid stability" and implying that the only serious problems were confined to an approximately three hour period during the middle of the month.
This leaves us wondering whether he's talking about the same grid that we're familiar with, or if perhaps there's not some new definition of stability that we might have missed the press release for. The last four weeks has seen no less than 20 unplanned stability issues reported on the grid's status blog, and a number that went unreported there. That's not even counting the failed rollout of SLS1.25 simulator code, which caused additional difficulties -- or issues with ancillary services.
That said, January is supposed to see the rollout of the new inventory service, which should alleviate problems with one kind of inventory loss, and improve inventory transactional integrity. Additionally there are two other projects which are moving away from Linden Lab's dependence on VPN servers, which are responsible for a great deal of the network and inter-simulator communications problems that cause disruptions on a more or less weekly basis.
Ambrose promises more information on all of these, as well as additional information in approximately one month.
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